{"id":373459,"date":"2011-04-08T02:28:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T02:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/08\/obama-sees-budget-talks-progress\/"},"modified":"2011-04-08T02:28:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T02:28:14","slug":"obama-sees-budget-talks-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/08\/obama-sees-budget-talks-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama sees budget talks progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"103.9907735983\">\n    \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>7 April 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>22:28 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <!--  Embedding the video player --><br \/>\n<!--  This is the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"33\">\n<div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"holding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2d50134e2262_de01-1.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"US President Barack Obama\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- embedding script --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- companion banner --> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- END - companion banner --><!-- caption --><\/p>\n<p>President Obama: &#8220;There are a few issues that are outstanding&#8230; so I&#8217;m not prepared to express wild optimism&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- END - caption -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><!-- end of the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Player embedded -->\t<\/p>\n<p>US President Barack Obama has said he is hopeful a government shutdown can be averted, as negotiators worked into the night to forge a budget deal.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and Democrats failed to reach an agreement on Thursday but Mr Obama said &#8220;differences had narrowed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was not prepared to express &#8220;wild optimism&#8221; but hoped to be able to announce a deal on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Without a deal, the law funding most of the US government will expire at midnight on Friday, forcing a shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Talks have been stalled for days as Republicans &#8211; urged on by the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement &#8211; push for larger budget cuts than Democrats are willing to concede.<\/p>\n<p>After Mr Obama spoke, the White House announced that his planned trip to the state of Indiana on Friday had been postponed. <\/p>\n<p>  <span>&#8216;No certainty&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Republicans in the US House have pushed for $61bn (\u00a337.4bn) in cuts between now and the end of the fiscal year on 30 September, and have sought to use the budget bill to dismantle Democratic policy priorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats have accepted cuts of more than $33bn (\u00a320bn) from last year&#8217;s levels, but say the size of the cuts Republicans demand would hinder the nascent US economic recovery.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-13008928#story_continues_2\">Continue reading the main story<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n<h2>Government shutdowns<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t<!-- pullout-items--><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- pullout-body--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> US government shut down 10 times during the Carter and Reagan administrations<\/li>\n<li> Last shutdown was in 1995 under President Bill Clinton<\/li>\n<li> Law passed in 1870 prohibits government from operating if a budget hasn&#8217;t been passed<\/li>\n<li> This is interpreted to exempt so-called essential services<\/li>\n<li> These include: National security, air traffic control, some but not all medical services<\/li>\n<li> But not: Processing of visas and passports, museums and monuments, answering work e-mails (by non-essential workers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- pullout-links--><\/div>\n<p>Looking tired, Mr Obama spoke late on Thursday after leaving a meeting with Vice-President Joe Biden, Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Senator Harry Reid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My hope is that I&#8217;ll be able to announce to the American people some time relatively early in the day that a shutdown has been averted, that a deal has been completed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no certainty yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said his administration had spent the past two years trying to right the ailing US economy, and that he feared a government shutdown would derail signs of recovery seen recently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For us to go backwards because Washington couldn&#8217;t get its act together is unacceptable,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that 800,000 federal government workers would be barred from working and would not collect pay cheques, while millions more who rely on government services would be affected.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mr Boehner and Mr Reid said in a joint statement they would work through the night &#8220;to attempt to resolve our remaining differences&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>&#8216;Non-essential services&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day on Thursday, congressional leaders from both parties insisted no deal had been reached but also said they were optimistic one could be struck before a temporary measure funding the US government was to expire.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--  Embedding the video player --><br \/>\n<!--  This is the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"holding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cd10f0540956_de27-1.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"USA flag\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- embedding script --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- companion banner --> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- END - companion banner --><!-- caption --><\/p>\n<p>Rajini Vaidyanathan looks at what services might be cut if there is a partial government shutdown<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- END - caption -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><!-- end of the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Player embedded -->      <\/p>\n<p>The US government has subsisted without a long-term budget since 1 October, funded by a series of temporary measures.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent of those is set to expire at midnight on Friday, forcing all government services deemed non-essential to shut down and keeping hundreds of thousands of government workers at home.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in the House approved another temporary measure on Thursday &#8211; but one that would cut $12bn from spending in a single week. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/attachments\/USEOPWHPO\/2011\/04\/07\/file_attachments\/21741\/SAP_on_H.R._1363.pdf\">statement<\/a> that the US government could not continue to operate on a week-to-week basis and that he would veto the Republican bill if it arrived on his desk.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2d50134e2262_de01-1.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-13008928\" title=\"Obama sees budget talks progress\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obama sees budget talks progress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 7 April 2011 Last updated at 22:28 ET Please turn on JavaScript. 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